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Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: Kenneth Branagh in "Wild, Wild West"
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Zaz
Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre
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6/11/07 8:29pm
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: Matt Dillon in "Herbie: Fully Loaded"
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That's always possible, of course. We don't have a crystal ball. And sometimes what they sign on for is not what gets made. However, "Herbie: Fully Loaded"? If Dillon didn't know what that movie was going to be like, he's a half-wit. And I doubt that.
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Wilderness_Comedian
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6/11/07 8:41pm
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: Matt Dillon in "Herbie: Fully Loaded"
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Maybe Matt is a huge Herby nut?
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Zaz
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: Matt Dillon in "Herbie: Fully Loaded"
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And maybe he isn't.
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"20. Cuba Gooding Jr. in Chill Factor
(1999) Three years after his Jerry Maguire Oscar, Gooding was still asking folks to show him the money. How else to explain this slice of tripe featuring a weapon of mass destruction and an ice cream truck? Look at that again: a weapon of mass destruction and an ice cream truck. At one point, Gooding threatens Skeet Ulrich with ''I'm about to get in your ass like last year's underwear!'' What does that even mean?"
I'm glad I haven't seen this...
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epic
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6/12/07 2:44am
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: 20. Cuba Gooding Jr. in "Chill Factor"
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OBI-BEN-KENOBI posted:
Murray's films started to get good. Then he seemingly dropped from the radar. Then, this.
In graph form:
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Bill Murray has chosen to work with some excellent directors in his latter years. Wes Anderson (Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, Life Aquatic), Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation) and Jim Jarmusch (Broken Flowers). it's paid off. one of my favourite actors.
Garfield is pretty crappy, but it's only his voice. who cares.
Brando wasn't shameless, either. he's smrt.
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StarDude posted:
He told him not to see Herbie, but to see Crash instead.
Can't blame him.
i'd take Herbie a thousand times over before sitting through that absolutely ****ty movie again.
Cuba Gooding = one hit wonder
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The_Face
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6/12/07 5:47am
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: 20. Cuba Gooding Jr. in "Chill Factor"
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Did he just not make enough money from "Snow Dogs" for it to be considered "paycheck-grabbing", or was he ashamed when he did it?
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Darth Dark Helmet
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6/12/07 11:40am
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: 20. Cuba Gooding Jr. in "Chill Factor"
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This list could probably be re-named: "Cuba Gooding Jr.'s Career"?
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Akumz_Razor
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6/12/07 11:54am
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: 20. Cuba Gooding Jr. in "Chill Factor"
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I seem to remember a quote from CG jr. a while back where he said that after his Oscar none of the big studios would hire him (except Disney) and he was 'forced' to make all these lame kids' movies just to earn a living.
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Gonk
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6/12/07 6:10pm
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: 20. Cuba Gooding Jr. in "Chill Factor"
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He was worth it. The rest of the acting in that movie aside from Hackman and Reeve wasn't too great.
He certainly made the movie memorable... but a percentage of the movie's gross for 13 minutes?
Cripes, Liam Neeson would do a great job of it today for a fraction of that.
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Gobi-1
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6/12/07 7:58pm
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: 20. Cuba Gooding Jr. in "Chill Factor"
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Chill Factor
Snow Dogs
Boat Trip
Norbit
and the upcoming, soon to be classic...
Daddy Day Camp!
I think the last great thing Cuba did was his performace in Pearl Harbor. Unfortunately his role was far too small.
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6/12/07 8:30pm
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: 20. Cuba Gooding Jr. in "Chill Factor"
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I'd like to say that at least this sequel to DDC has potential, but...I just can't bring myself to do it.
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Zaz
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6/12/07 8:36pm
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: 20. Cuba Gooding Jr. in "Chill Factor"
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Next:
"19. Elizabeth Taylor in The Flintstones
(1994) Yes, she's a living legend...blah blah blah. But despite her five Oscar noms, Taylor remains about as hopeless at picking out quality roles as she is at choosing husbands. In fact, I'm blaming Larry Fortensky for getting her mixed up with this one, where she plays Fred's mother-in-law, Pearl Slaghoople. Taylor slums her way through a litany of groan-inducing puns (she calls John Goodman's Fred a ''skunkasaurus'')."
Of course, this movie did nobody any favours.
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Black-Pearl
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6/12/07 8:38pm
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: 21. Elizabeth Taylor in "The Flintstones"
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I agree completley.
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Private-Caboose
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6/12/07 8:39pm
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: 21. Elizabeth Taylor in "The Flintstones"
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I have fond memories of the first flinstones movie....
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Wilderness_Comedian
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6/12/07 8:42pm
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: 21. Elizabeth Taylor in "The Flintstones"
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Wow. 2 topics in the last 10 minutes.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
6/13/07 7:22pm
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: 21. Elizabeth Taylor in "The Flintstones"
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"18. Ben Affleck in Paycheck
(2003) This one's almost too easy. I mean, it's right there in the title. My guess is Affleck — who admits regretting ''the times I took movies just to work'' — never even made it past the script's cover page before signing on for this jackpot. Coasting in smug lug-nut mode, Affleck plays a ''reverse engineer'' (we know he's a brainiac because he wears glasses) who wakes up with his memory wiped and goons on his tail. To say that he phones in his performance is too generous. It's more like he's using a couple of tin cans and some string."
Luckily haven't seen this one...
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